Editing Pete (Disney) (section)

===''Alice Comedies''===
[[File:Alice Solves the Puzzle scene.jpg|thumb|left|Pete's first appearance in ''[[Alice Solves the Puzzle]]'']]
Pete first appeared in the [[Walt Disney]]-produced 1920s ''[[Alice Comedies]]'' short subject series.

He first appeared in ''[[Alice Solves the Puzzle]]'' (February 15, 1925) as Bootleg Pete.<ref name=Gersteinv2>{{cite book |last1=Gerstein |first1=David |title=Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse |volume=2: Trapped on Treasure Island |date=2011 |publisher=Fantagraphics Books |location=Seattle, Washington |isbn=9781606994955|page=248}}</ref> His nickname was a reference to his career of [[rum-running|bootlegging]] alcoholic beverages during [[Prohibition in the United States]] (1920-1933). In the cartoon, Pete's activities bring him to a beach in time to see Alice working on a [[crossword puzzle]]. Pete happens to be a collector of crossword puzzles, and identifies Alice's puzzle being a rare one missing from his collection. The rest of the short focuses on his antagonizing Alice and her drunken cat [[Julius the Cat|Julius]] to steal it.

In various later ''Alice Comedies'', the character again battled and competed with Alice and Julius, often under the aliases Putrid Pete and Pegleg Pete.<ref name=Gersteinv2 />